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Termination Redux (EP) (2024)
Featured Thrash Metal Album
Obnoxious Demos (2014)
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Featured Grindcore Album
Mentally Murdered (2019)
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Hematogen is a grindcore/brutal death metal band from Yelizovo, Russia, active since 2018 and dealing in the most extreme and guttural forms of death metal. The project channels punishing brutality with unrelenting intensity.
Breton black metal project from Rennes, active since 2010. Their atmospheric compositions draw on the Celtic mysticism and maritime climate of Brittany's capital city.
An uncompromising psychedelic death metal project from Bratislava, active since 2025. Their sound channels the genre's most crushing impulses through thunderous riffs.
Hemicorporectomy is a slam/brutal death metal band from Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, formed in 2020. They unleash unrelenting brutal death metal fury.
Death metal band from Madrid, Spain, formed in 2022. Their crushing approach delivers unrelenting death metal from the Spanish capital's extreme music underground.
Death metal/hardcore band from Denmark, active since 2016. Their surgical approach to extreme music merges death metal brutality with hardcore punk intensity.
An established melodic death metal/metalcore voice from Sremska Mitrovica, contributing to Serbia's underground since 2025. Rooted in old-school traditions, their compositions deliver unrelenting heaviness.
Death metal/grindcore band from Biscay, Spain, formed in 2024. Their ferocious blast of brutality and grind erupts from the Basque Country's Atlantic coast.
Hemothorax is a death metal band from Örebro, Sweden, active since 2015 and delivering uncompromising extremity through crushing riffs and guttural vocals. The project channels the relentless brutality of the genre.
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